Easy homemade Chick-fil-A Sauce is an easy recipe that has notes of mustard and sweet honey and is brought up to the next level of flavor with the added combination of smoky tang from the addition of barbecue sauce.
This recipe is made of simple ingredients to have your favorite sauce at home without having to pay the crazy store prices and know exactly what you are dipping your chicken nuggets or waffle fries into.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our copycat Chick-Fil-A sauce, you need the following five ingredients:
- Mayo: you will need to use mayonnaise or light mayonnaise for the best results
- Mustard: when making this recipe use classic yellow mustard to get the preferred flavor, honey mustard could be a second choice
- Juice: you can use fresh lemon juice or lemon juice concentrate for this recipe
- Honey: use your favorite brand of honey, avoiding any honey that has the honeycomb in it as that will not work to get the correct texture
- Barbecue sauce: to get the natural hickory smoke flavor of this sauce recipe try and choose a BBQ sauce that has the description “smoky” in the name
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment: small mixing bowl and whisk.
How to Make Chick-Fil-A Sauce
- Whisk all ingredients together in a bowl.
- Enjoy with your favorite french fries, sweet potato fries, on your favorite sandwich, or with salad.
Frequently Asked Questions About Making This Tasty Dipping Sauce
Be sure to shake your yellow mustard well before using so all of the water doesn’t come out before the mustard.
I’m sure Miracle Whip would work, but the taste would be totally different. Mayonnaise is the ingredient needed to make it taste more like the Chick-Fil-A sauce.
Yes, some grocery stores sell it. We’ve seen it available at Walmart and Food Lion.
If you are using a sweeter barbecue sauce add 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce at a time to get your desired flavor.
To make this into a spicy dipping sauce but keep the natural flavor of the sauce, just add a little bit of chipotle chili pepper to the sauce until it is to your liking. I would suggest starting out with a 1/8 tsp of chili pepper.
Recipe Notes
- If you are looking for a healthier alternative, you can also use Greek yogurt in place of mayonnaise. It won’t taste the *quite* same, but again, it is a healthier alternative.
- Store any remaining Chick-fil-A sauce in an airtight container and place it in the fridge for 5-7 days.
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Chick-Fil-A Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise, (or light mayonnaise)
- 2 teaspoons mustard
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 Tablespoons honey
- 1 Tablespoon BBQ sauce, (we like the "smoky" sauces best in this recipe)
Equipment
Instructions
- Whisk all ingredients together in a bowl
- Enjoy with your favorite fries, on your favorite sandwich, or with salad.
Notes
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Should it be real mayo or could Miracle Whip be used?
Just made this because chick fil a forgot to give us our chick fil a sauce! Tasted just like it! Thanks!
I’m sure miracle whip would work, but the taste would be totally different. Mayonnaise is the ingredient needed to make it taste more like the Chick-Fil-A sauce.
*if* there are leftovers of the sauce, how long should it be stored?
You can easily store this in an airtight container for a week or so in the refrigerator.
Any particular kind of mustard?
Just regular prepared mustard. It can be French’s or store brand. They all work great.
What bbq sauce did you use?
Needs Worcestershire sause! About two Tablespoons did it for me. But maybe my bbq sauce was too sweet to begin with
What kind of Bbq sauce
We use all kinds of bbq sauce. Usually whatever is on sale. KC Masterpiece and Sweet Baby Rays is always a favorite.
Agree with Jeff. I only added 1 Tbsp, but after letting it sit while I prepped the rest of the meal, it mingled in to taste exactly like the packet I had in the fridge!
Attempted this but it came out super runny. Any ideas why? Or what I could change to make it thicker?
I’m not sure what could have gone wrong. We used Best Foods mayonnaise. If you used a store brand and it was a little on the runny side that could alter the recipe. Also, be sure to shake your mustard well before using so all of the water doesn’t come out before the mustard.
Yellow, Spicy, Dijon mustard?
Regular prepared mustard.
My family is on its second batch of this sauce and I doubled it! It is great on chicken wraps, my own version of chicken sandwiches, broiled venison, and tonight’s entree of bacon wrapped goose! We can not tell the difference. Now I can stop hoarding the little packets. Thanks for a great recipe that actually tastes like the original.